基于灰色神经网络的输油管道运行费用预测

输油管道运行费用的预测在原油运输中有着重要意义,文中将灰色预测模型与神经网络预测模型结合起来,建立灰色神经网络预测模型,对输油管道运行费用进行预测。灰色神经网络预测模型充分发挥了灰色预测模型和神经网络预测模型样本少、计算速度快的优点。计算结果表明：灰色神经网络与EBP神经网络相比,预测模型精度高,计算量小,收敛速度快。     

A computationally efficient two-stage method for short-term traffic prediction on urban roads

Abstract

Short-term traffic prediction plays an important role in intelligent transport systems. This paper presents a novel two-stage prediction structure using the technique of Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA) as a data smoothing stage to improve the prediction accuracy. Moreover, a novel prediction method named Grey System Model (GM) is introduced to reduce the dependency on method training and parameter optimisation. To demonstrate the effects of these improvements, this paper compares the prediction accuracies of SSA and non-SSA model structures using both a GM and a more conventional Seasonal Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA) prediction model. These methods were calibrated and evaluated using traffic flow data from a corridor in Central London under both normal and incident traffic conditions. The prediction accuracy comparisons show that the SSA method as a data smoothing step before the application of machine learning or statistical prediction methods can improve the final traffic prediction accuracy. In addition, the results indicate that the relatively novel GM method outperforms SARIMA under both normal and incident traffic conditions on urban roads.     

地质法在隧道超前地质预报中的作用探讨

当前隧道超前地质实际预报中只注重物探仪器的应用,忽略地质方法的作用,从而导致预报精度不高,坚持以地质法为基础、以物探为手段的综合超前预报可以大大提高预报精度。文章首先介绍了超前地质预报的任务和地质法的内容;然后研究了物探法的缺陷,并对地质法在超前预报中的作用进行了分析;最后,确定地质法对物探法的指导作用,是超前预报的基础和核心,是提高超前地质预报水平的重要保证。     

Short/medium-term prediction for the aviation emissions in the en route airspace considering the fluctuation in air traffic demand

This paper proposes a novel short/medium-term prediction method for aviation emissions distribution in en route airspace. An en route traffic demand model characterizing both the dynamics and the fluctuation of the actual traffic demand is developed, based on which the variation and the uncertainty of the short/medium-term traffic growth are predicted. Building on the demand forecast the Boeing Fuel Flow Method 2 is applied to estimate the fuel consumption and the resulting aviation emissions in the en route airspace. Based on the traffic demand prediction and the en route emissions estimation, an aviation emissions prediction model is built, which can be used to forecast the generation of en route emissions with uncertainty limits. The developed method is applied to a real data set from Hefei Area Control Center for the en route emission prediction in the next 5 years, with time granularities of both months and years. To validate the uncertainty limits associated with the emission prediction, this paper also presents the prediction results based on future traffic demand derived from the regression model widely adopted by FAA and Eurocontrol. The analysis of the case study shows that the proposed method can characterize well the dynamics and the fluctuation of the en route emissions, thereby providing satisfactory prediction results with appropriate uncertainty limits. The prediction results show a gradual growth at an average annual rate of 7.74%, and the monthly prediction results reveal distinct fluctuation patterns in the growth.     

A genetic algorithm-based method for improving quality of travel time prediction intervals

The transportation literature is rich in the application of neural networks for travel time prediction. The uncertainty prevailing in operation of transportation systems, however, highly degrades prediction performance of neural networks. Prediction intervals for neural network outcomes can properly represent the uncertainty associated with the predictions. This paper studies an application of the delta technique for the construction of prediction intervals for bus and freeway travel times. The quality of these intervals strongly depends on the neural network structure and a training hyperparameter. A genetic algorithm–based method is developed that automates the neural network model selection and adjustment of the hyperparameter. Model selection and parameter adjustment is carried out through minimization of a prediction interval-based cost function, which depends on the width and coverage probability of constructed prediction intervals. Experiments conducted using the bus and freeway travel time datasets demonstrate the suitability of the proposed method for improving the quality of constructed prediction intervals in terms of their length and coverage probability.     

高速公路运营收入预测软件的开发

高速公路运营收入预测是高速公路企业进行财务评价的基础,根据交通量和收费标准相结合的预测方法,用V isual Basic编制的小程序实现高速公路基年和未来年运营收入的快速预测,从而结束了手工计算的估算方式,大大提高了工作效率。     

Surface prediction and control algorithms for anti-lock brake system

Anti-lock brake system (ABS) has been designed to achieve maximum deceleration by preventing the wheels from locking. The friction coefficient between tyre and road is a nonlinear function of slip ratio and varies for different road surfaces. In this paper, methods have been developed to predict these different surfaces and accordingly control the wheel slip to achieve maximum friction coefficient for different road surfaces. The surface prediction and control methods are based on a half car model to simulate high speed braking performance. The prediction methods have been compared with the results available in the literature. The results show the advantage of ABS with surface prediction as compared to ABS without proper surface identification. Finally, the performance of the controller developed in this paper has been compared with four different ABS control algorithms reported in the literature. The accuracy of prediction by the proposed methods is very high with error in prediction in a range of 0.17-2.4%. The stopping distance is reduced by more than 3% as a result of prediction for all surfaces.     

路基沉降变形预测方法及应用实例分析

对路基沉降变形的计算和预测方法中的双曲线预测模型及原理进行介绍,结合浙江某高速公路路基沉降变形预测的实例进行分析,实测数据与相对应的预测曲线吻合度较好,客观地反映了路基沉降的动态发展情况。     

Bus travel time prediction using a time-space discretization approach

The accuracy of travel time information given to passengers plays a key role in the success of any Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS) application. In order to improve the accuracy of such applications, one should carefully develop a prediction method. A majority of the available prediction methods considered the variation in travel time either spatially or temporally. The present study developed a prediction method that considers both temporal and spatial variations in travel time. The conservation of vehicles equation in terms of flow and density was first re-written in terms of speed in the form of a partial differential equation using traffic stream models. Then, the developed speed based equation was discretized using the Godunov scheme and used in the prediction scheme that was based on the Kalman filter. From the results, it was found that the proposed method was able to perform better than historical average, regression, and ANN methods and the methods that considered either temporal or spatial variations alone. Finally, a formulation was developed to check the effect of side roads on prediction accuracy and it was found that the additional requirement in terms of location based data did not result in an appreciable change in the prediction accuracy. This clearly demonstrated that the proposed approach based on using vehicle tracking data is good enough for the considered application of bus travel time prediction.     

Applying multiple kernel learning and support vector machine for solving the multicriteria and nonlinearity problems of traffic flow prediction

This article proposes to develop a prediction model for traffic flow using kernel learning methods such as support vector machine (SVM) and multiple kernel learning (MKL). Traffic flow prediction is a dynamic problem owing to its complex nature of multicriteria and nonlinearity. Influential factors of traffic flow were firstly investigated; five‐point scale and entropy methods were employed to transfer the qualitative factors into quantitative ones and rank these factors, respectively. Then, SVM and MKL‐based prediction models were developed, with the influential factors and the traffic flow as the input and output variables. The prediction capability of MKL was compared with SVM through a case study. It is proved that both the SVM and MKL perform well in prediction with regard to the accuracy rate and efficiency, and MKL is more preferable with a higher accuracy rate when under proper parameters setting. Therefore, MKL can enhance the decision‐making of traffic flow prediction. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Short‐term traffic flow prediction with linear conditional Gaussian Bayesian network

Traffic flow prediction is an essential part of intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Most of the previous traffic flow prediction work treated traffic flow as a time series process only, ignoring the spatial relationship from the upstream flows or the correlation with other traffic attributes like speed and density. In this paper, we utilize a linear conditional Gaussian (LCG) Bayesian network (BN) model to consider both spatial and temporal dimensions of traffic as well as speed information for short‐term traffic flow prediction. The LCG BN allows both continuous and discrete variables, which enables the consideration of categorical variables in traffic flow prediction. A microscopic traffic simulation dataset is used to test the performance of the proposed model compared to other popular approaches under different predicting time intervals. In addition, the authors investigate the importance of spatial data and speed data in flow prediction by comparing models with different levels of information. The results indicate that the prediction accuracy will increase significantly when both spatial data and speed data are included. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

川气东送天然气管道线路水合物形成预测

为了更好地预测、分析和处理水合物造成的不良后果,以川气东送管道为例讨论了天然气水合物的形成原因,提出了输气管线水合物预测模型,并建立了水合物形成预测的压力和温度计算模型,编制了“水合物预测软件”,预测该管道线路和场站的水合物形成条件和易形成水合物的区域.文中通过以上方法很好地预测了川气东送管道水合物的形成区域及情况,该预测方法可用于天然气管道线路水合物的形成预测.     

等里程间隔GM(1,1)模型在关角隧道6号斜井涌水量预测中的应用

在原始灰色GM(1,1)模型的基础上,通过运用等间距里程序列的分析方法建立模型,并对关角隧道6号斜井的涌水量进行了模拟预测。经检验,预测结果精度较高,对隧道工程涌水量的短期预测具有较大的实用价值。     

超前地质预报综合技术在公路隧道中的应用

文章介绍了地震波反射法、高密度电法(三电极法)和超前钻孔法三种探测技术的原理及现场测试,并对广乐高速公路长基岭隧道应用这三种探测手段进行的综合超前地质预报结果进行了分析研究。结果表明,间接预报和直接预报综合技术有一定的实用性;另外,单一预报方法都有一定的局限性,而综合地质预报方法能够实现优缺点互补,大大提升预报的针对性和可靠性。     

综合超前地质预报在长乐山隧道施工中的应用

在岩溶地区修建隧道过程中,经常遇到突水、突泥等地质灾害。为了规避地质灾害的发生、减少其对隧道施工运营造成的损失,通常要投入大量的隧道超前地质预报工作。文章在进行水文、地质、地貌研究的基础上,提出了运用岩溶地质学原理对隧道岩溶发育情况进行定性预测,划分重点预报地段、选择合适的物探方法或物探组合模式、有的放矢地进行综合超前预报的观点;以长乐山隧道为工程背景,采用了岩溶地质定性预测+地震波法探测+地质雷达探测的超前预报模式,取得了良好的效果,验证了综合超前地质预报的有效性、经济性。     

Adaptive prediction of flight time uncertainty for ground-based 4D trajectory management

An adaptive prediction model of level flight time uncertainty is derived as a function of flight and meteorological conditions, and its effectiveness for ground-based 4D trajectory management is discussed. Flight time uncertainty inevitably increases because of fluctuations in meteorological conditions, even though the Mach number, flight altitude and direction are controlled constant. Actual flight data collected using the secondary surveillance radar Mode S and numerical weather forecasts are processed to obtain a large collection of flight time error and flight and meteorological conditions. Through the law of uncertainty propagation, an adaptive prediction model of flight time uncertainty is derived as a function of the Mach number, flight distance, wind, and temperature. The coefficients of the adaptive prediction model is determined through cluster analysis and linear regression analysis. It is clearly demonstrated that the proposed adaptive prediction model can estimate the flight time uncertainty without underestimation or overestimation, even under moderate or severe weather conditions. The proposed adaptive prediction is able to improve both safety and efficiency of 4D trajectory management simultaneously.     

Dynamic prediction of traffic volume through Kalman filtering theory

Two models employing Kalman filtering theory are proposed for predicting short-term traffic volume. Prediction parameters are improved using the most recent prediction error and better volume prediction on a link is achieved by taking into account data from a number of links. Based on data collected from a street network in Nagoya City, average prediction error is found to be less than 9% and maximum error less than 30%. The new models perform substantially (up to 80%) better than UTCS-2.     

综合地质预报技术在坛厂隧道施工中的应用

文章介绍了坛厂隧道施工中存在的主要工程地质问题(浅埋破碎、煤层瓦斯、断层破碎带、岩溶及涌水突泥等),以及地质超前预报的重点和难点;针对施工中采用的“以地质法为基础、以HSP声波反射法为主要手段、结合电磁波反射法的综合预报技术”,并结合隧道进口浅埋段和中部岩溶涌水突泥段的预报情况进行了研究分析.隧道施工开挖揭露的情况表明,预报结果与实际开挖揭示吻合率较好,对本隧道工程施工起到了积极的指导作用,为隧道安全施工提供了技术保障.     

Real-time trip purpose prediction using online location-based search and discovery services

The use of smartphone technology is increasingly considered a state-of-the-art practice in travel data collection. Researchers have investigated various methods to automatically predict trip characteristics based upon locational and other smartphone sensing data. Of the trip characteristics being studied, trip purpose prediction has received relatively less attention. This research develops trip purpose prediction models based upon online location-based search and discovery services (specifically, Google Places API) and a limited set of trip data that are usually available upon the completion of the trip. The models have the potential to be integrated with smartphone technology to produce real-time trip purpose prediction. We use a recent, large-scale travel behavior survey that is augmented by downloaded Google Places information on each trip destination to develop and validate the models. Two statistical and machine learning prediction approaches are used, including nested logit and random forest methods. Both sets of models show that Google Places information is a useful predictor of trip purpose in situations where activity- and person-related information is uncollectable, missing, or unreliable. Even when activity- and person-related information is available, incorporating Google Places information provides incremental improvements in trip purpose prediction.     

Modeling traffic noise in a mountainous city using artificial neural networks and gradient correction

Different regions have established traffic noise prediction models to adapt to their particular environmental characteristics. This paper aimed to develop a traffic noise prediction model for mountainous cities. In China, the traffic noise prediction model HJ 2.4-2009, which itself is based on the sound pressure level corrected for roadway gradients (RGs), has been receiving widespread acceptance. On the basis of the model in HJ 2.4-2009, the RG correction coefficient was proposed to modify the original model and a per-vehicle noise prediction model was built using a multilayer feedforward artificial neural network (ANN) model. The data collected from a municipal road of a hilly city, Chongqing, was used to train and validate the ANN model. The predictor variables comprised the per-vehicle noise value, vehicle type, vehicle velocity, and roadway gradient. The results showed that the modified HJ 2.4-2009 model incorporating the gradient correction coefficient achieved a significantly higher R² for mountainous cities than the original model. Besides, the ANN-based noise prediction model achieved considerable accuracy improvement over the empirical predictive equations.